diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index e588843a702f..08020ac19c43 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ lazy val pkg = (project in file("lib/scala/pkg"))
       (`editions` / Compile / exportedModule).value,
       (`semver` / Compile / exportedModule).value,
       (`scala-yaml` / Compile / exportedModule).value,
-      (`scala-libs-wrapper` / Compile / exportedModule).value
+      (`scala-libs-wrapper` / Compile / exportedModule).value,
+      (`version-output` / Compile / exportedModule).value
     )
   )
   .dependsOn(editions)
diff --git a/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/java/module-info.java b/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 4a9ef4ce6d96..c9f68c6d208b 100644
--- a/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   requires org.apache.commons.compress;
   requires org.enso.editions;
   requires org.enso.semver;
+  requires org.enso.version.output;
   requires org.enso.scala.yaml;
   // For io.circe
   requires org.enso.scala.wrapper;
diff --git a/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/scala/org/enso/pkg/Config.scala b/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/scala/org/enso/pkg/Config.scala
index 46435a9b6544..3adb2ecfd257 100644
--- a/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/scala/org/enso/pkg/Config.scala
+++ b/lib/scala/pkg/src/main/scala/org/enso/pkg/Config.scala
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import org.enso.semver.SemVer
 import org.enso.editions.{EditionName, Editions}
 import org.enso.pkg.validation.NameValidation
 import org.enso.scala.yaml.{YamlDecoder, YamlEncoder}
+import org.enso.version.BuildVersion
 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.{DumperOptions, Yaml}
 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.error.YAMLException
 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.{MappingNode, Node}
@@ -114,7 +115,19 @@ case class Config(
 
   /** Converts the configuration into a YAML representation. */
   def toYaml: String = {
-    val node          = implicitly[YamlEncoder[Config]].encode(this)
+    val config: Config = this
+    val noDevEdition: Config =
+      if (
+        config.edition.exists(
+          _.parent
+            .exists(p => p.toString == BuildVersion.defaultDevEnsoVersion())
+        )
+      ) {
+        config.copy(edition = None)
+      } else {
+        config
+      }
+    val node          = implicitly[YamlEncoder[Config]].encode(noDevEdition)
     val dumperOptions = new DumperOptions()
     dumperOptions.setIndent(2)
     dumperOptions.setPrettyFlow(true)
diff --git a/lib/scala/pkg/src/test/scala/org/enso/pkg/ConfigSpec.scala b/lib/scala/pkg/src/test/scala/org/enso/pkg/ConfigSpec.scala
index d813d7fc0912..aabdbeafb5bf 100644
--- a/lib/scala/pkg/src/test/scala/org/enso/pkg/ConfigSpec.scala
+++ b/lib/scala/pkg/src/test/scala/org/enso/pkg/ConfigSpec.scala
@@ -46,6 +46,26 @@ class ConfigSpec
       parsed.edition shouldBe empty
     }
 
+    "persist normal edition" in {
+      val parsed = Config.fromYaml("name: fooBar\nedition: 2024.4.2").get
+      parsed.name shouldEqual "fooBar"
+      parsed.normalizedName shouldEqual None
+      parsed.moduleName shouldEqual "FooBar"
+
+      val ser = parsed.toYaml
+      ser shouldEqual "name: fooBar\nnamespace: local\nedition: 2024.4.2\n"
+    }
+
+    "don't persist dev edition" in {
+      val parsed = Config.fromYaml("name: fooBar\nedition: 0.0.0-dev").get
+      parsed.name shouldEqual "fooBar"
+      parsed.normalizedName shouldEqual None
+      parsed.moduleName shouldEqual "FooBar"
+
+      val ser = parsed.toYaml
+      ser shouldEqual "name: fooBar\nnamespace: local\n"
+    }
+
     "correctly de-serialize and serialize back the shortened edition syntax " +
     "if there are no overrides" in {
       val config =